Grieve in Greenery

The ASA proudly presents “Grieve In Greenery” by Gillian Coulton.

The tangled connections between memory, place, and personal history are often difficult to describe, my practice attempts to embody the connection between memory and place. I am an artist and white settler, originally from rural Alberta, and my work explores my connections to the places around the rural landscapes where I grew up with a sense of isolation, uneasy nostalgia and personal discover. Drawing on prairie imagery, my work questions and attempts to pick apart traditions of landscape painting and their interconnection with the prairies, through both the way my work uses medium and imagery while still acknowledging my roots and learning as colonial….